(ANSA) – BOLZANO, DECEMBER 13 – Karl Ausserer, a former South Tyrolean terrorist fugitive from the 1960s and resident in Austria since then, died at the age of 88. The death occurred on December 1, as reported by the Heimatbund, the South Tyrolean Patriotic League, which placed a crown on his grave in Innsbruck.
The carpenter is believed to be one of the founders of the ‘Ein Tirol’ group (United Tyrol) responsible, according to the claims, for most of the 46 bomb attacks that took place in South Tyrol from April 1986 to October 1988. As the Heimatbund reiterates, however, the attacks of the Eighties were allegedly carried out by “criminals piloted by the Italian secret services to discredit the freedom fighters”, as happened – the note continues – against Ausserer, who was also isolated from his former comrades. “This weighed heavily on him,” writes the Heimatbund.
Previously he had been sentenced in absentia in Italy to 24 years in prison for attacks that took place in the 1960s. In Austria, Ausserer was sentenced in 1989 to five and a half years of imprisonment for “preparations for a crime with explosive substances” and was later forgiven a third of the sentence for good behavior in 1992. (ANSA).
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